You don't have to look further than our website to see how tough life is for those in road transport at the moment. Elite Transport appears to be heading for a CVA and is far from unique in its predicament.
More grist for the mill then, with research for Viking office supplies finding (albeit from a small sample of 70-odd hauliers) that one in three are worried about making it to the end of 2013.
The quarterly survey, which looks at a number of UK sectors in its entirety, found those in transport to be particularly worried about securing new business in the current awful economic situation. More than a third (35%) expect winning business to be their biggest expense this year which The Hub is a bit surprised at given the high cost of fuel. So basically a third of transport firms think winning new business is going to cost them more than running their fleet of trucks?!
So much for New Year's optimism.